Moving Picture Shows - December 1913

STITH

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 11/26/2013 at 22:31:48

After Christmas there will be three moving picture shows in full blast every evening except Sunday. We want to make a suggestion to the several proprietors. Why not get together and organize a progressive moving picture party to which the men, women and children are invited. Let each show have a three reel attraction each evening. Then arrange a program which will provide for sufficient time for the crowds to rush from one house to another between shows. For instance a man would take his family to Stith’s for the first show. As soon as that was off, he would rush to the Auditorium, where he could enjoy a second show. When this was over, he could hot foot it for the Princess and wind up a riotous evening there. Or a man could start in on the West Side for the first show, then hike to the Orpheum for the second and land at Stith’s for the third. This would give all the houses crowded houses every evening and their patrons an evening full of fun, pathos and excitement. Hooray, for the Pastime, the Princess and the Orpheum. May they all have big houses and large profits.

[“The Daily News”, Friday, December 19, 1913; Charles S. Rogers, Publisher]